On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:38:06PM -0700, DataZap wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anyone on this list has put a 250 gig hard drive in an
> Amiga with an "Acard" scsi-to-ide bridge. I know that it can be done, and
> although I would need to put the boot partition in the first 2 gig of the
> drive, Linux doesn't have any such limit. The partitions need to be setup
> in HDtoolbox, and because it is an ide drive, I need to setup all the
> geometry by hand. There is a formula for setting this up, I just don't
> know it. Can anyone help me out with this?
You can partition in Linux with amiga-fdisk also and write down the track
numbers if you want to enter them in hdtoolbox. Did not help me much, as the
Amiga partitions are not visible on the Amiga3000 and 4000 I tried, this
only seems to work on Amiga2000.
This is a 250GB IDE disk on an acard adapter with a 256MB and a ~1000MB
Amiga partition, a couple of 4GB Linux partitions as well as two larger ones
plus 2GB swap:
root@crest:~>/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 31 sectors, 246167 cylinders, RDB: 0
Logical Cylinders from 2 to 246166, 1015808 bytes/Cylinder
Device Boot Mount Begin End Size Pri BBlks System
/dev/sda1 * * 2 256 252960 0 0 Amiga FFS
/dev/sda2 * 257 1056 793600 0 0 Amiga FFS
/dev/sda3 * 1057 5284 4194176 0 0 Linux native
/dev/sda4 * 5285 9512 4194176 0 0 Linux native
/dev/sda5 * 9513 13740 4194176 0 0 Linux native
/dev/sda6 * 13741 67649 53477728 0 0 Linux native
/dev/sda7 * 67650 244053 174992768 0 0 Linux native
/dev/sda8 * 244054 246166 2096096 0 0 Linux swap
Christian